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'Sure, I''m tough on movies, but sometimes I''m just another gushing, adoring fan.
Such is the case with actress Catherine Deneuve, the stunning French actress who turns 70 today.
Why do I love her so? Let me count the ways.
Yes, yes -- she is beautiful. But she is also deep, strong, smart, and nuanced as an actress. And when those qualities get injected into a woman who''s also stunning physically, well -- that''s the sexiest, most powerful kind of beauty, isn''t it?
She is a surv...

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The sexual revolution started in the late fifties in Paris with two movies and two big movie stars: Brigitte Bardot in And God Created a Woman in 1956 and Jean Paul Belmondo in Breathless in 1959.
Brigitte had real sex (to completion) on camera with her co star and later lover, Jean Louis Trintignant, while her husband Roger Vadim directed the scene. Free love was born. The Queen of the Sexual Revolution was Brigitte and women everywhere ...

' Former screen siren threatens to quit France for Russia, in protest not at tax hikes but at treatment of two circus elephants Brigitte Bardot has threatened to follow Gérard Depardieu in asking for a Russian passport, in protest not at tax hikes but at the treatment of two circus elephants. The animals, named Baby and Nepal, are owned by a touring circus and thought to be carrying tuberculosis. They were ordered to be put down by a court in Lyon, southern France, on Friday as a precautio...

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"FAME BROUGHT me so much unhappiness!"
That was Brigitte Bardot, years after she retired at the age of 39, mulling her experiences as one of the world''s great symbols. (She had allegedly attempted suicide at the age of 25.)
After Bardot left films, she devoted herself to animal causes. More recently, and less pleasantly, she has become politically conservative, raving against Muslims and others. This latter image, of an angry Bardot, who eschewed plastic surgery and looks li...

Timeline

Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of Roger Vadim.

CHILDHOOD

1928Birth
Born in 1928.

LATE ADULTHOOD

200072 Years Old
Vadim died of cancer at age 72 on 11 February 2000.
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He was survived by his widow, Marie-Christine Barrault, and his four children (Nathalie, Vanessa, Christian and Vania). Ex-wives Bardot, Fonda, Schneider and Stroyberg were all in attendance at his funeral. He is interred at St. Tropez Cemetery.<br /><br /> Notes Read Less